Thursday, January 5, 2017

Top Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation News Stories in 2016

In the U.S., two major events occurred in 2016 regarding cell
phone radiation—release of the long-awaited results from the cell phone cancer
study conducted by the National Toxicology Program and enactment of the first cell
phone "right to know" law in Berkeley,
California.

In addition, two major national
newspapers, The New York Times
and The Wall Street Journal, published articles about cell phone radiation warnings.

National Toxicology Program Cell Phone Cancer Study

The National Institute of
Environmental Health Science released partial results of the $25 million National
Toxicology Program study on the effects of exposure to cell phone radiation. The
FDA called for this study in 1999. Cell phone radiation was found to cause two
types of cancer in male rats and DNA damage in male and female mice and rats.

The Berkeley cell phone "right to know" law which was adopted on a 9-0 unanimous vote of the City Council in May, 2015, took effect in March of 2016.
Berkeley is the first city in the United States to pass a cell phone radiation
ordinance since San Francisco disbanded its ordinance after a two-year court
battle with the CTIA, the wireless industry's lobbying organization.

The CTIA has
sued Berkeley, and the case is currently being adjudicated in the Federal
courts. Links to more than two hundred news stories from fourteen countries can
be found on the EMR Safety website.

Last January, the New
York Times published an exposé about CDC’s retraction of cell phone
warnings from its website after protests from industry-funded scientists.

In May, the Wall Street Journalinvited
two experts, Joel Moskowitz from the University of California, Berkeley and
Larry Junck from the University of Michigan, to debate the need for cell phone
radiation warning labels in its Journal Reports series.